Dejima improvisation series

2018

Dejima improvisation performance is a bimonthly event in the theater of Dejima in Nagasaki.
Performances in 2018
vol.1 January 29, vol.2 March 26, vol.3 May 28, vol.4 July 30
more to come...

Kazushi Matsumoto: trombone
Koji Shimakawa: overtone instruments
Testu Nagasawa: drums
Mioko Yoshihara: dance
Armand van den Hamer: dance

出島に集うパフォーマー5人(ダンス/音楽）。出島に関するエピソードが語られ、それを場の『興り』としパフォーマンスが始まる。長崎では珍しい即興による競演。その時折に出会い、うまれる音と動き。出島に沸き立つ『今』。

2018年7月30日（月）19:00-20:30
会場：国指定史跡『出島和蘭商館跡』
新石倉（出島シアター）
長崎市出島町６－１ 出島電停前
出演：シマカワコウヂ（倍音楽器） 長沢哲（ドラムス） 松本和志（トロンボーン、倍音唱法） 吉原未央子＆
アルマンド ファン・デン・ハーメル（ダンス）

Fujin Raijin impro performance

2018

Short improvisation performance at Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum on May 3 2018.
performers: Koji Shimakawa: overtone instruments Testu Nagasawa: drums Mioko Yoshihara: dance Armand van den Hamer: dance

Girovago

2017

Girovago

Reborn from worn out times, an artist wanders into the room.

The Italian poet, Ungaretti wrote his poem Girovago (vagabond) after fighting as a soldier in World War I, where he is wandering around in a broken world, seeking to be reborn in an innocent land.

Now his poem is the leitmotif for the 5 challenged artists from different disciplines participating in this one week project. One after the other, with less than 23 hours to work, will present their artistic interpretation of the poem, Girovago. Each artist will have the space from the previous artist as a starting point. （The first evening will be a kick-off event, where each participant will bring some material for the first person.）

Each evening at 20:00 the audience will witness the transformation of the space and will be granted a very interesting look into the artistic process of each artist.

すりきれた時間から再生し、アーティストはその空間にさまよい入る。
イタリアの詩人ウンガレッティは、自身が第一次大戦から帰還したのち、生まれ変わることのできる罪なき国を求め、壊れてしまった世界をさまよう自らの姿を「Girovago」（ジローヴァゴ/放浪者）という詩の中で詠いました。
今回、この詩をライトモティーフとして、分野の異なる5人のアーティストが挑戦・参加する１週間のアートプロジェクト：「Girovago ジローヴァゴ」を開催します。
各アーティストが一日ひとりずつ23時間以内で「Girovago ジローヴァゴ」をテーマに作品を制作、翌日午後8時に発表し、２日目以降のアーティストは、前日の作品を制作の出発点とする形式をとります。（第一夜は、各自が初回担当者へ素材を持ち寄る、キックオフイベントとなります。）
毎夜午後８時に作品が発表されるごとに、観覧者の皆さんには、それぞれのアーティストによって同じ空間が日々どのように変貌していくか、楽しんでいただけることと思います。

 

Requiem for a Cosmonaut

2014












foto: Charlotte Brouckaert

“Being human means nothing when you’re alone.”


A meditative psychological science fiction crystallizing around the experiences of a cosmonaut on board of a disintegrating spaceship.
The cosmonaut, symbol of the greatest height of progression of the modern era, becomes the victim of his own success. Doomed to fall down in Icarus style, the cosmonaut is fighting a lost battle to prevent the collapse of the system on which he depends.
Surrealistically permeated with sounds and images from the time of the Renaissance, this solo performance also proposes a reflection on man's timeless longing to unify himself with his universe.

Dedicated to Erwin, who navigated so beautiful in extremely bad weather.

Concept, choreografie, soundtrack en uitvoering : Armand van den Hamer

Licht ontwerp : Anne van Es

Coproductie : Les Brigittines, Danscentrumjette  
 Met dank aan Roxane Huilmand, Wolfgang Kolb, Sammy Dellicour, Nicole Mossoux, Patrick Bonté

Nico Huijbregts / Mioko Yoshihara / Armand van den Hamer

2013

 

Improvisation performance by 

Nico Huijbregts (piano)

Mioko Yoshihara (dance) 

Armand van den Hamer (dance) 

9/11/2013 at De Refter, Beek-Ubbergen, the Netherlands 

video 

Two sink three float

2011


A Trio performance with dance and visual theater.
"The water as unknown, depth, subconscious lets things float or sink. On this thin membrane between top and bottom one is taken into a surreal and visual story. Three characters find their balance on a platform, among themselves with the elements. There is an underworld, a world under, which we do not see. It is not shown on the surface. Or is it?"

Cast: Choreographer: Satya Roosens. Created with Simon Thomas-Train and dancers: Mirte Courtens, Armand van den Hamer, Saty Roosens. Visual artist Kurt Demey. Constructor: Collin Kassies. Composer: Giovanni di Domenico. Dramaturgic advise: Klaus Jurgen. Textile designer: Rosalie Spruijt. Stage: Mael Palu (FAIAR)

Touring Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands and South-Korea

Mapped space #5

2011


Video sketch
Dance improvisation integrated in a painting by Nico Huijbregts
Armand van den Hamer: Dance and Video

I am in the wrong bar

2010



Video sketch

Nico Huijbregts: Piano and Image
Armand van den Hamer: Dance and Video

Where has the moon gone?

2010
Tsuki wa doko e itta? (Where has the moon gone?)

A multidisciplinary performance with dance, music and calligraphy, presented at the Chinese Zen temple Kofukuji, which was founded in 1620 in Nagasaki, Japan. Inspiration for this piece came from the moon and Chinese poetry on the moon and the Chinese characters themselves. These 'Kanji' were transformed into movement dance and music and formed a technical ellement that brought together the artists from Holland, Shang Hai, Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Hirado.

17,18-09-2010 at Kofukuji Temple, Nagasaki, Japan

Concept & Choreography:
Armand van den Hamer

Co-choreography: 

Mioko Yoshihara

Music:
Sissi Ji (Er-fu), Kazuya Zenzai

Calligraphy:
Yugo Yasuda

Dance:
Armand van den Hamer
Mioko Yoshihara
Natsue Yamaguchi
Mayumi Kawamoto
Ichiko Hirano
Noriko Matsumoto
Maki Furukawa

Costume design: 

Armand van den Hamer, 

Flyer Design: Yugo Yasuda,

Production: 

Kanshi Temple Project, Mioko Yoshihara

Co-production: Tomyozan Kofukuji, Nagasaki,

Technical support: Hiroyuki Chisaki (Page One Planning)

Production Support: Yoshihara Cleaning Co., Hirado Otsuka Healthy Circle, Hirado Komyoji Temple, PARTS Summer Studio

Special thanks to Dahlia Mees

More info: www.tsukidoko.blogspot.com

Les corps magnétiques

2009 - 2012

Company Mossoux-BontéFour men and four women are moving along a frontier: a demarcation line — the edge of a ditch or the start of a race. Couples form, groups and lone individuals, without ever breaking the line…raising the question of the impossible yet necessary community.

With Bernard Eylenbosch, Odile Gheysens, Sébastien Jacobs, Yvain Juillard, Leslie Mannès, Frauke Mariën, Maxence Rey, Armand van den Hamer
Concept: Patrick Bonté
Direction and choreography: Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté

Premiered at Le Manège (Mons, Belgium) 24 - 27 November 2009.
Touring: Brussels (ThéâtreVaria, Les Brigittines, Les Halles de Schaerbeek) Lille, Paris, Erlangen, Neurenberg, Le Mans, Cracow...

Jazz@Lib - Une Histoire de Vent

2009

Une Histoire de Vent
Concert met improvisatie en experiment als uitgangspunt geproduceerd door De Lindenberg te Nijmegen in samenwerking met Nico Huijbregts.

Kristina Fuchs - stem,
Ned McGowan - (contrabas)fluit,
Naomi Sato - saxofoon en sho,
Michel Mulder – bandoneon,
Armand van den Hamer – dans


De Lindenberg produceert in samenwerking met Nico Huijbregts een nieuw seizoen van de avontuurlijke concertserie Jazz@lib.

Lucht, aarde, water en vuur.
Met improvisatie en experiment als uitgangspunt stuurt Nico vier concerten. Elk concert wordt ingegeven door een van de vier elementen lucht, aarde, water en vuur. Behalve dat op grond daarvan door Huijbregts allerlei zaken zullen worden aangereikt uit film, beeldende kunst, literatuur, muziek, etc., bepaalt dit bovendien zijn keuze van instrumenten.

Meer disciplines verenigd
De musici worden aangevuld met een danser, een vormgever, een beeldend kunstenaar, een acteur en een kok. Op de dag van het concert komen de kunstenaars samen om te repeteren en 's avonds daarvan de weerslag te presenteren.

Huijbregts' interesse ligt bij die musici die zich zowel in de wereld van de hedendaags gecomponeerde muziek als in de wereld van de improvisatie bewegen.

Aan Une Histoire de Vent nemen de volgende musici deel:
Kristina Fuchs - stem, Ned McGowan - (contrabas)fluit, Klaas Hoek - harmonium, Michel Mulder - bandoneon, Armand van den Hamer - dans.
 

Kaze-no-Suiheisen

2009


Kaze-no-Suiheisen (Horizon of Wind) refers to the intense history of international exchange between Holland and Hirado, Japan and to the sentiments of exchange between cultures in general. The piece is inspired by the human desire to look ‘behind the horizon’. Kaze-no-Suiheisen is also a hymn for the ocean, as the most important stage and symbol for connecting people from around the globe.

Performed at Hirado Cultural Center and Tabira Citizen Centre Hall as main part of the 12xHolland Art Festival

Alex de Wolf - live drawing
Annelinde de Jong - stage objects
Mijke van Griensven - animation, boxing
Armand van den Hamer - contemporary dance
Gavin Viano Fabri - hip hop dance
David van Ooijen - lute
Kees Wieringa - piano
Marjolijn van Roon - recordersJunko Ueda - voice, lyrics
Wil Offermans - concept, direction, flutes

Gently reframed

2009

foto: Annelinde de Jong

Taking a playful and naive perspective Armand van den Hamer is reframing his favorite elements from Japanese culture (like shodo, sumo, zen, a.o.) into a context of European contemporary dance.
Gently reframed is a short solo dance performed as part of the 12xHolland Art Festival in Hirado, Japan.

Mission 2nd take, pitched

2008

Video sketch

Nico Huijbregts: Piano and Image
Armand van den Hamer: Dance and Video

Pang!

2007








Link to article with more photos

Nuit sur le monde

2007-2009

Company Mossoux-Bonté
Theatre of fantasy and images, Nuit sur le monde is a triptych that evokes our relation to the ancestral, the contemporary and a hypothetical future.
Everything begins with the image of a bas-relief composed of figures that start moving, detaching themselves from the stone and the shadows… Abrupt falls, uncertain embraces, flows of movement interrupted: humanity unfolding in the doubt of its origins and the knowledge of its end.
The performance delves into the themes of vanity and the eternal return, blending different situations with a certain humour and distance. Dancers and actors dive into the dark night of the body – an opaque mystery that vibrates like an approaching storm.



With: Sébastien Jacobs, Leslie Mannès, Sylvie Merck, Ayelen Parolin, Maxence Rey,
Candy Saulnier, Armand van den Hamer
Concept: Patrick Bonté
Direction and choreography: Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté

Premiered at Brigittines Brussels. Touring: London, Poznan, Turin, Kortrijk, Avignon, Paris, Leipzich, Dijon, Krakow, etc.

Seconde Main

2007

Dance and music instant composition project proposed by Julien Bruneau. Performed in Bains::Connective, Brussel.

During these two evenings, dancers and musicians from Brussels, Berlin and Lille will propose their work based on a common desire to explore further the moment when an exchange between artist and audience happens.

Each evening will present different compositions in which music and dance claim their mutual autonomy, interconnect through changing relations and try to unfold the potential diversity of the group.

more on: secondemaininstantcomposition.blogspot.be　

XL

2006 - 2008


Just like in a fast food restaurant, you can make your order from a diverse menu; what about a Big Mac Stuart or a Double Dekeybus or a Trish and Chips?
XL is a playful trip through recent dance history, accessible for experts and non-experts of it, and at the same time a dancing critic about the consumers' society.

Concept/Choreography: Maria Clara Villa-Lobos
XL was created in 2000 and is touring since then.
Dancing since 2006 for tours in Sweden, France, Belgium, Germany:
Mioko Yoshihara
Violeta Todo Gonzales
Armand van den Hamer
Denis Robert
Maria Clara Villa-Lobos
duration: 60min

Hirado

2005


Solo inspired on traditional Haya Dance, performed at Haya-festival; Trio with dancer and Koto-player, performed at a Buddhist temple; Quartet with dancer and tuba- and flute-players, performed in a park. All part of a residency-program at Hirado City in Japan. Organised by 12xHolland.

Sonic Momentum Experiment Company/ First Meeting

2005


Confrontations between music, dance and sculpture in the space in communication with Mioko Yoshihara, Gloribel Hernandez, Harmjan Roeles, Nico Huijbrechts. LAB by Muziekenhuis, LUX, Nijmegen.